time travel

See also: time-travel

English

Alternative forms

• time-travel

Etymology

time + travel

Noun

time travel (uncountable)

1. (chiefly science fiction) Travel to the past or the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.
2. (databases) The ability to access previous states of a database.

Derived terms

• time travel debugging
• time-traveler, time-traveller
• time-traveling, time-travelling

Translations

hypothetical or fictional travel to the past or future

• Catalan: viatge en el temps m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 時間旅行／时间旅行 (si⁴ gaan³ gei¹ hei³)

  Mandarin: 時間旅行／时间旅行 (zh) (shíjiān lǚxíng)

• Czech: cestování časem n, cestování v čase n
• Danish: tidsrejse c
• Dutch: tijdreis (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: tempovojaĝado
• Faroese: tíðarreikan
• Finnish: aikamatkustus, aikamatkailu
• French: voyage dans le temps m
• Galician: viaxe no tempo f
• German: Zeitreise (de) f
• Hungarian: időutazás (hu)
• Icelandic: tímaflakk
• Irish: amthaisteal m, taisteal san/trí am m
• Italian: viaggio nel tempo m
• Japanese: タイムトラベル (ja) (taimu toraberu), 時間旅行 (jikan ryokō)
• Korean: 시간여행(時間旅行) (siganyeohaeng)
• Macedonian: времеплов m (vremeplov)
• Mongolian: цаг хугацааны аялал (cag xugacaany ajalal)
• Polish: podróżowanie w czasie n
• Portuguese: viagem no tempo f
• Romanian: călătorie în timp f
• Russian: путеше́ствие во вре́мени n (putešéstvije vo vrémeni)
• Serbo-Croatian: vremeplov (sh), времеплов m
• Slovak: cestovanie v čase n
• Spanish: viaje en el tiempo m, viaje a través del tiempo m
• Swedish: tidsresa (sv) c
• Turkish: zamanda yolculuk, zaman yolculuğu
• Welsh: teithio mewn amser m, teithio drwy amser m

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